10 May
2013
10 May
'13
5:49 p.m.
On 05/10/2013 07:26 PM, Cory Smelosky wrote:
I really hope it performed better than ULTRIX performs in a simulator...
Ultrix on a DECstation or VAXstation was as snappy as most anything anyone
else had ever seen at the time.
UNIX of 25 years ago was nowhere near as bloated and heavy as it is today,
particularly (and most specifically) in the areas of GUIs. Graphical
programming in particular, back then, didn't involve all of the
runtime-calculated positioning and widget packing that is common nowadays.
(look at how GTK GUIs are built to see what I mean) Responsiveness for most
anything user-oriented was effectively instantaneous.
And I'm talking about an R2000 processor at 16MHz with ~8MB of RAM. No
typos there.
-Dave
--
Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA
Much to my surprise a couple weeks ago, I found the
DECstation 5000
that I bought to run NetBSD. I thought I'd dumped it on Jim Willing
over a decade ago.
I still have a huge soft spot for DECstations, I really regret getting
rid of all of mine. Whattayagonnado.
It makes me feel like a real whippersnapper to admit it, but ULTRIX 4.2
on a DECstation 3100 was my first introduction to any flavor of UNIX.
There was a small NFS cluster of three DECstations on campus, supporting
remote logins for a couple hundred users (not simultaneously,
obviously). It's where I cut my teeth.